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Evidence for Neurosurgery

Effective Procedures and Treatment

  • Brings together the best evidence for treatments and discusses their complications

  • Emphasises clinical relevance rather than statistically significant differences

  • Includes conclusions made using evidence-based medicine

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Evidence in Neurosurgery

    • Ronald H. M. A. Bartels, Gert P. Westert, Maroeska M. Rovers
    Pages 1-4
  3. The Value of Decompressive Craniectomy in Traumatic Brain Injury

    • Angelos G. Kolias, Athanasios Paschalis, Kostas N. Fountas, Peter J. Hutchinson
    Pages 5-18
  4. Cranioplasty: Does Timing Have Any Effect on the Degree of Neurological Recovery or the Complication Rate?

    • Zayan Mahmooth, James G. Malcolm, Rima S. Rindler, Faiz U. Ahmad
    Pages 19-40
  5. Controversies in Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery: Micro-Electrode Recordings

    • Jeroen Habets, Bethany Isaacs, Saman Vinke, Pieter Kubben
    Pages 97-109
  6. Chiari Malformation: Posterior Fossa Decompression With or Without Duraplasty?

    • Alexander Perdomo-Pantoja, Rajiv R. Iyer, Alan R. Cohen
    Pages 111-125
  7. Posterior Decompression for Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy: Laminectomy, Laminectomy and Fusion or Laminoplasty

    • Fan Jiang, Hiroyuki Katoh, Kazuya Yokota, Michael G. Fehlings
    Pages 145-174
  8. Early Versus Delayed Surgery for Cervical Disc Herniation

    • Lukas Bobinski, Yohan Robinson
    Pages 175-191
  9. The Oblique Corpectomy, Forgotten but an Effective Procedure? A Systematic Review

    • Nadia N. F. Simoes de Souza, Anne A. E. H. Broekema, Jos J. M. A. Kuijlen
    Pages 193-208
  10. Cervical Arthroplasty: The Evidence

    • Ricardo Vieira Botelho, Marcelo Luis Mudo, Jerônimo Buzetti Milano, Juliete Melo Diniz, Andrei Fernandes Joaquim
    Pages 209-221
  11. Cauda Equina Syndrome Due to Ruptured Lumbar Intervertebral Disc: Optimal Timing for Surgery

    • Carmen L. A. Vleggeert-Lankamp, Nina S. Korse, Henk W. Elzevier
    Pages 223-235
  12. Comparative Analysis of Open Versus Minimally Invasive Techniques for Posterior or Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion

    • Lee Hwang, Vikram Chakravarthy, William Kemp, Michael Steinmetz, Edward Benzel
    Pages 257-276

About this book

This book covers spinal, cranial and peripheral nerve surgeries. Each chapter has a uniform format for ease of reading, including a description of the problem, a literature summary and analysis, and conclusions made using evidence-based medicine (including the GRADE method).

The scientific evidence for a selection of neurosurgical procedures for well-known pathologic entities is thoroughly summarized and analysed in order to provide an overview of the efficacy and effectiveness of procedures in relation to the target patient population.

Evidence for Neurosurgery: Effective Procedures & Treatment is aimed at a professional audience of junior and consultant neurosurgeons, researchers in the area, and policy makers.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Ronald H. M. A. Bartels, Maroeska M. Rovers, Gert P. Westert

About the editors

Ronald Bartels was born in 1962 in Maastricht, the Netherlands. He gained his medical degree from Catholic University Nijmegen, which is now Radboud University Nijmegen. In 1996 he gained his Board certification in neurosurgery, and his certification in spinal surgery in 1999. He obtained his Certification epidemiologist B (SMBWO) in 2008. He is currently Full Clinical Professor and Chair of the department of Neurosurgery, Radboud University Medical Center, The Netherlands.

Maroeska M. Rovers was born in Doetinchem, the Netherlands in 1973. She completed her MSc in Biomedical Health Sciences in 1996, and her PhD on ‘Otitis media with effusion in infants: the effects of ventilation tubes’ in 2000. She is currently Professor of Evidence-Based Surgery at Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Furthermore, she is a member of the council of the IDEAL collaboration, a group of leading surgeons and methodologist whom aim to improve the quality of research in surgery.

Gert P. Westert was born in Ommen in 1961. He completed his MSc in medical sociology and reserach methodology in 1978 and his PhD on ‘Variation in Use of Hospital Care’ in 1991. He is director of IQ healthcare and full professor Quality of Health Care and Health Services Research at Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. IQ healthcare is a scientific centre for research, education and support of quality, safety and innovation in healthcare and one of the leading scientific institutes in this field in Europe. He has 25 years of experience as a health services researcher and published 250 papers in various journals.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Evidence for Neurosurgery

  • Book Subtitle: Effective Procedures and Treatment

  • Editors: Ronald H. M. A. Bartels, Maroeska M. Rovers, Gert P. Westert

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16323-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16322-8Published: 02 September 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-16325-9Published: 02 September 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-16323-5Published: 19 August 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 371

  • Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations, 24 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Neurosurgery, Surgical Orthopedics

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Softcover Book USD 99.99
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Hardcover Book USD 139.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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